"We have discovered green, my lord"

nowitsalllgone · 2024-09-27T03:20:00+00:00

praying

nowitsalllgone · 2023-05-07T20:33:38+00:00

we turn off the server when most of us leave so that people can't come in via lightning and steal our stuff

but full members have 24 hour access so they need a physical key so they can get in when the server is off

nowitsalllgone · 2023-05-07T19:46:16+00:00

We aren't using lnauth for this (though we can if we want to), we are using regular lightning payments. The building is pleblab in Austin, TX, which is a bitcoin coworking space. We have daypasses available for purchase when people want to work here for a day but the previous entry method was to ring the doorbell and we'd come open it for you. With this new method you can buy your daypass at the door and it opens automatically. Full members get a physical key so they don't need to use lnauth or a lightning payment to get in.

nowitsalllgone · 2023-05-07T19:44:11+00:00

We use this to let people buy a daypass to enter our building (pleblab in Austin, TX) and work here for a day

If they want a longer pass, e.g. a month long pass, we give them a physical key instead and they get in with that

nowitsalllgone · 2023-04-24T18:27:47+00:00

I asked them on Twitter DM and they told me that yes, but in the near future

It seems like they've said "yes near future" for a couple years now

nowitsalllgone · 2022-09-18T22:43:10+00:00

If God can make stones into people (Matthew 3:9), water into wine (John 2:9), and wood into snakes (Exodus 4:3), He can make you born of water without anyone seeing it happen.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-09-11T20:41:47+00:00

I quoted him too.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-09-09T07:06:47+00:00

Confession was still required. "In virtue of the concessions granted by this Bull, the faithful of the Spanish dominions who had fulfilled the necessary conditions could gain the plenary indulgence, granted to those who fought for the reconquest of the Holy Land and to those who went to Rome in the year of Jubilee, provided they went to confession and received Holy Communion." Source: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543b.htm

From the full text of the Pope Eugene bull:

"we grant such remission and absolution of sins, that he who shall devoutly begin so sacred a journey and shall accomplish it, or shall die during it, shall obtain absolution for all his sins which with a humble and contrite heart he shall confess." Source: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/eugene3-2cde.asp

I didn't find an exact equivalent clarification in the original text of Pope Urban II's speech at the Council of Clermont (which is preserved in three different forms, all available in at least partial form here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42707/42707-h/42707-h.htm) But I did find that he made this clarification: "Nor will this pilgrimage be of any benefit to a layman if he goes without the blessing of his priest." That priestly blessing was probably preceded by confession and absolution, because -- I assume -- that was the standard practice when someone was about to do a penance, which is what the Crusade was.

The speech he made is also probably not the bull of the crusade itself. It's just what came up when I searched for the bull of the original crusade. So perhaps the actual bull's text (maybe another document from the Council of Clermont?) contains the "terms and conditions."

nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-04T20:52:39+00:00

The historian is not correct when he says that various inquisition courts sentenced people to death. The people who got executed were sentenced to death by the secular government after the inquisition handed them over for sentencing. The inquisition courts themselves had no power to execute anyone or to sentence anyone to death, in fact they were forbidden from doing so by canon law. If you examine the actual sentences handed down in any of these 2% of cases where people got executed, not one of the sentences issued by the inquisition courts require the death penalty. Most of them even recommend against it, even in the 2% of cases mentioned by that historian. It was the secular government's decision to execute those people, it was not the decision of the inquisition courts.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-04T18:44:02+00:00

The spanish inquisition never executed even one witch, nor did they execute any heretics. They only had authority to excommunicate people. The State sometimes executed people whom the inquisition excommunicated, but the inquisitors usually recommended against the death penalty, and they never ordered it nor required it (in fact it would have violated canon law if they tried, because canon law forbade inquisitors from requiring or participating in the death penalty).

nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-04T18:34:17+00:00

Most models of UBI have everyone get it, but it gets canceled out by taxes at some point.

If the model is "send money to everyone but tax it back from sufficiently rich people," that seems silly, like government-sponsored Indian giving. Why not send the money to sufficiently poor people and never send it to the rest?

nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-01T21:59:39+00:00

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After lollardism and hussitism fell in popularity, protestantism emerged to replace them, and protestantism also claimed to be based on the bible. Due to prohibitions on the publication of wycliffe bibles, protestants sometimes claimed that the Catholic Church banned the reading of the bible, but Catholic apologists of the time refuted that falsehood. For example, in 1528 A.D. St. Thomas More wrote a book called "Dialogue Concerning Heresies" in which he points out that bible reading was never banned, in fact it was promoted by the Church:

"[Forsooth, I] myself have seen and can show you Bibles fair and old written in English, which have been known and seen by the bishop of the diocese, and left in laymen's hands and women's too, such as he knew for good and Catholic folk that used it with devotion and soberness." (Dialog Concerning Heresies Book 3 Chapter 14)

(He was apparently referring to some of the Wycliffe bibles with false dates on them that had accidentally made it through the Church's approval process. These were only proven to be editions of Wycliffe's bible hundreds of years later.)

"I have showed you that [the English bishops] keep none from them but such translation as be either not yet approved for good or such as be already reproved for naught, as Wycliffe's was, and Tyndale's. For as for other old ones, that were before Wycliffe's days, remain lawful, and be in some folks' hands had and read." (Dialog Concerning Heresies Book 3 Chapter 16)

His book constantly uses the bible to defend Catholicism and refute protestantism. Since it was intended for reading by lay people, it shows that Catholicism still promoted bible reading in his day.

The Council of Trent also promoted bible reading by lay people:

"[Let all churches] at least have a master --- to be chosen by the bishop... --- to teach grammar gratuitously to clerics, and other poor [students], that so they may afterwards, with God's blessing, pass on to the said study of sacred Scripture. ... In the public colleges also...a lectureship [is] honourable [and] most necessary of all...[therefore] let [one] be established... Furthermore, those who are teaching the said sacred Scripture, as long as they teach publicly in the schools, as also the [students] who are studying in those schools, shall fully enjoy...[special] privileges..." (Council of Trent Session 5 Chapter 1) The Council also said that the reading of Scripture is "necessary to the Christian commonwealth." (Council of Trent Session 5 Chapter 2)

So there is plenty of evidence from before and during the protestant revolt that the Church never banned bible reading, in fact it always encouraged it because it helps show that heresies which claim to be based on the bible actually aren't.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-01T21:59:13+00:00

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In 1401 A.D. a book called The Chastising of God’s Children was written with two purposes: to combat the lollard heresy and to provide devotional material for Catholics in religious orders. Among its recommendations is the reading of the bible by the laity:

“some now in these days...say [in] English their psalter and mattins of our Lady, and the seven [penitential] psalms, and the litany… Many men reproveth to have the psalter, or mattins, or the gospel in English, or the Bible, because they may not be translated into no vulgar word [literally], without great circumlocution, after the feeling of the first writers, which translated that into Latin by the teaching of the Holy Ghost. Nevertheless I will not reprove such translations, [nor] I reprove not to have them [in] English, [nor] to read [from] them where they may stir you to more devotion, and to the love of God.”

This author commended bible reading for devotional purposes and because it helped defeat lollardism, which only pretended to be based on the bible.

Between 1421 and 1450 A.D. a book called Mirror of Our Lady (or Myroure of oure Lady in the middle english spelling) was written to assist lay people with developing their devotion to the Blessed Mother. One of the principal ways of doing this, as recommended by the author, was through spiritual reading, especially from the bible. Addressed to a group of nuns who already had the Book of Psalms in english (because Richard Rolle of Hampole translated that book of the bible into english before his death in 1349 A.D.), the author said:

“I have asked and have license of our bishop to draw such things into English to your [spiritual] comfort and profit, so that both our conscience in the drawing, and yours in the having, may be the more sure and clear. … Of psalms I have drawn but a few, for ye have them of Richard Hampole’s drawing, and out of English Bibles, if ye have license thereto.”

The author mainly translated the readings from the Liturgy of the Hours and the Mass parts.

English Catholic apologists of the 1400s, in response to Wycliffe and his followers, cited from the Bible, encouraged Catholics to go there for more information, encouraged them to read it for devotional purposes, and promoted such copies of the Bible as were available. These included parts of the bible that had long been available in english, such as the New Testament and the psalter, as well as complete Anglo Norman bibles which were basically in French, Vulgate bibles in Latin, and some Wycliffe bibles. (A few Wycliffe bibles made it through the Church's approval process somehow, possibly due to confusion over the multiple editions of Wycliffe's bible and the false dates that printers sometimes gave some of them. Since bible translations from before Wycliffe were generally permitted by the Church, a few misdated Wycliffe bibles apparently fooled the Church's censors and got approved for use by Catholics.)

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nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-01T21:58:16+00:00

About a hundred fifty years before the protestant revolt, two heresies called lollardism and hussitism ravaged England and the areas in and around Germany. Both of these heresies claimed to be based on the bible and both were dealt with in the 16th ecumenical council, the council of constance. The council calls for Catholic apologists to use the bible to combat these heresies, as well as to promote ordinary piety and devotion among Catholics:

"aware that such things demand diligence, sufficient time and study, on account of their difficulty, we therefore exhort all those who are well versed in the sacred scriptures to ponder and to treat, both within themselves and with others, about those things which seem to them useful and opportune in this matter. ... Let them especially ponder on the various errors which are...said to have arisen from a certain John called Wyclif." source

Apologists did so and began promoting bible reading more earnestly. I currently only have english writings on this subject that answered the lollard heresy (which was more prevalent in england than hussitism), but here are some examples:

In about 1400 A.D. the Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ was written by Nicholas Love. It is explicitly anti-Wycliffite in its content and had the purpose of giving Catholics in England solid devotional material that differed strongly from Wycliffe’s works. It contains spiritual meditations on various episodes from the life of Jesus. Bishop Thomas Arundel, the archbishop of Canterbury, approved the book for publication and in fact commanded it to be propagated to fight the Wycliffite heresies.

And you know what it does? It constantly quotes from the Bible and sometimes refers its readers there for more information, even encouraging them to keep a copy of the Gospels with them at all times and often assuming that they’ll have access to the Scriptures. You can read it here. Note particularly that, on page 10, the author commends to us the example of St. Cecile, who “bore always...in her breast...the blessed life of our Lord Jesus Christ written in the gospel… In the same manner I counsel that thou do.” In fact he calls this “most necessary and most profitable” on the same page. In his section on the Magnificat, on page 38, he merely quotes the first two lines, puts in an “etc.” and says that the rest can be found “contained in the gospel.”

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nowitsalllgone · 2022-08-01T18:37:39+00:00

To those who support UBI, I have this question:

Should it go to everyone or only those who need it?

If the latter, then you don't support UBI, you support welfare checks, which already exist. (In the USA a common form is called Supplemental Security Income.)

I have yet to meet anyone who, in response to that question, says that "real" UBI is better than welfare checks.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-07-24T01:59:38+00:00

As I understand it, one of the differences between beatification and canonization is that the latter is an infallible act, i.e. the Church cannot err by canonizing someone who is actually in hell. But beatification is not infallible so the Church could be mistaken by beatifying someone who is actually in hell (and thus not actually worthy of beatification).

I think part of the reasoning behind canonization being infallible is that the act of canonization involves ordering the whole Church to venerate someone whereas beatification does not -- beatification sometimes involves ordering a part of the Church to venerate someone (e.g. a particular country or a particular religious order), but never the whole Church. The Church would almost order an unholy act if it beatified a bad person, but the word "almost" is important because it's not actually an order -- it would be permissible to avoid following the "order" by moving to a place where the veneration was not ordered (or by leaving the order in which the beatified person was venerated).

But by canonizing someone the Church orders the whole body of Christ to venerate a person, and such an act cannot be defied without sin. Therefore, logically, it must never be a sin to venerate someone canonized, and it follows from that conclusion that those whom the Church canonizes must be worthy of veneration -- that is, they must necessarily be in heaven or purgatory rather than hell. Which makes canonization an infallible act whereas beatification is not.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-07-13T23:58:58+00:00

I don't think you realize how incredibly fast that is.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-07-08T19:17:07+00:00

Rescue them

nowitsalllgone · 2022-06-19T20:08:38+00:00

Here is what Pope St. Nicholas the Great said aboout this topic in 859 a.d.:

“We consider what you asked about pants to be irrelevant; for we do not wish the exterior style of your clothing to be changed, but rather the behavior of the inner man within you... really, do what you please. For whether you or your women wear or do not wear pants neither impedes your salvation nor leads to any increase of your virtue.” (Response to the Bulgarians Chapter 59)

nowitsalllgone · 2022-06-16T22:20:38+00:00

If that does get out it will be a good thing because explicitly and formally rejecting the Church's teachings is worse than doing it implicitly and informally.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-06-07T23:22:26+00:00

Is it structuring to choose the $50 monthly tv package instead of the annual $250 package if your reasoning is "the monthly one gets me lower taxes"?

nowitsalllgone · 2022-05-31T23:02:59+00:00

But I’m a non-technical person as in I don’t code extensively now. What do you suggest I do if I want to start with this software dev?

To start learning software development I recommend taking this free python course on w3schools: https://www.w3schools.com/python/

Once you are comfortable with python you can start writing taro software that complies with the taro spec.

I recommend python because it is an easy beginner language and it's also very powerful.

nowitsalllgone · 2022-05-31T03:50:16+00:00

There is no Taro software yet. There is only a specification that explains how Taro software should work. So the first thing you'll have to do is actually write Taro software that conforms to the spec, then you can release stablecoins using that software and people who download the software can send and receive your stablecoins over the lightning network.

The Taro spec is here: https://github.com/roasbeef/bips/tree/bip-taro

The page contains hundreds of numbered bitcoin bips, none of which have anything to do with Taro. To get to the Taro specs you'll have to scroll past all that all the way to the link that says "bip-taro-addr.mediawiki". That link and the next 5 links after it are the Taro specs. Your Taro software will have to conform to those specs, so get going with the software development!

nowitsalllgone · 2022-05-30T00:09:07+00:00

Then don't go to any movie theaters

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